Gordon Frazer Managing Director, Microsoft UK WELCOME Gordon Frazer Managing Director, Microsoft UK 2

Department for Culture, Media and Sport Intellect Harvey Nash e-skills UK DTI Dialogic Consulting DfES Department for Culture, Media and Sport The City University CBI BT British Computer Society BBC New Media ARM Ariadne Capital Anglia Ruskin University Amicus University of Reading University of Manchester University of Kent The Work Foundation The Rights Marketing Company Sinocode Sir Digby Jones Roger Distill Restoration Partners Queen Mary - University of London Office for National Statistics NESTA National Entrepreneurship Observatory for Wales Microsoft Research 3

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Potential UK Skills Shortage Global Growth 5

Knowledge Economy (KE) UK Economic Growth KE = 40% of GDP 50% by 2010 Fastest growth area CE = 7.3% of GDP Growth Trade Jobs UK Economy KE 2010 Knowledge Economy (KE) Creative Economy(CE) Software Economy (SE) 6

No ‘Computing’ GCSE in England, NI & Wales A-Levels 5 Year Drop 43% To 6233 No ‘Computing’ GCSE in England, NI & Wales 7

Innovation Supporting SMEs Industry Support IP Rights R&D Classification Public procurement 8

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